Michael Markie

Cosmik New Year: 2025 in Review, and Looking Forward to 2026 2025 was a big year for Cosmik: Semble went from concept to working product, with active users, a public API, and community members already building on top. We also launched the ATProto Science and CA...

2025 was a big year for us: @semble.so went from concept to working product, with 150 users in 2 months, a public API, and the wonderful atproto community already helping us build into the Atmosphere. We also co-launched @atproto.science and @cairos.network. Here's our year in review and what's next

Funders Roll Out Next Gen Open Policies - SPARC

Learn about #preprints & accelerating #OpenAccess to research in our story featuring HHMI, Gates & Astera. @hhmi-science.bsky.social, @madubs.bsky.social, @gatesfoundation.bsky.social, @openaccessmaven.bsky.social, @asterainstitute.bsky.social, @pracheeac.bsky.social sparcopen.org/impact-story...

Challenge.gov Challenge.gov is the official government website supporting prize challenges and prize competitions that are sponsored by the US federal government. Here federal agencies provide prize awards to publi...

New #NIH prize competition to identify areas of biomedical science that can benefit from replication and to recognize past replication efforts to further promote the importance of research replication:

www.challenge.gov?challenge=re...

Submission deadline is in one month!

Reimagining Scholarly Publishing: Outcomes From A Public Forum To Discuss The Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) Publishing Model – ASAPbio At a meeting held on the 3rd December 2025 at Kings College, Cambridge over 50 delegates, comprising researchers, publishers, librarians, research funders and

Very much enjoyed last week's meeting in Cambridge about the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model for scholarly publishing. There were lots of highly inspiring discussions, including an important discussion about strengthening coordination between initiatives in this area.

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Here’s to Stratos, our work together, and the future of Open Science - Stratos As Stratos enters its seventh year, our focus is on synthesis and convergence to bring the ideas and innovations together to maximize progress and impact.

As 2025 draws to a close, we pause to reflect, and consider what's ahead for Open Science in the new year.

#openaccess #openscience #openresearch

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@scietyhq.bsky.social is bringing scholarly discussion to the open social web! Through NLnet-funded work w/Bonfire, we’re linking preprint discovery & federated platforms like Mastodon & Bluesky. Bonfire v1 is live & crowdfunding: indiegogo.com/en/projects/... Community-first, ad-free #OpenSource

Two posts from Bluesky. The first one shows a figure from a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports full of totally incoherent AI fabricated gibberish words. The other a comment on a recently published paper by eLife discussing the paper and its peer reviews which were published along with the paper.

Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?

Photo of a group of 20 people in an open space with windows and desks. People are in a standard group photo pose facing the camera and smiling.

Building trust, building together: In San Diego @continuous.foundation & openRxiv hosted a workshop bringing together developers of scientific communications tools. Implementation focused, and most importantly we got to work together.
Learn more: articles.continuousfoundation.org/articles/sci...

I am really proud that eLife have published this paper. It is a very nice paper, but you need to also read the reviews to understand why! 1/n

From Tools to Adoption: A Path to Modular and Interactive Scientific Publishing | ICOR

From Tools to Adoption: A Path to Modular and Interactive Scientific Publishing | ICOR https://incentivizingopen.org/2025/11/from-tools-to-adoption-a-path-to-modular-and-interactive-scientific-publishing/

Not at scale. I agree an institutionalised approach would be more successful. It’s been a slog to get ORCID where it is today but they’ve got good adoption so an integration could give it the secure/verified aspect it currently lacks (VERIME is run by the people who started ORCID which helps).

I’ve been keeping an eye on the VERIME cooperative which seems like a good researcher-driven solution to author identification/verification. verime.coop/how-verime-w...

MetaROR Turns One - MetaROR An exciting year of open, community-driven evaluation of metaresearch One [...]

🎈 Time flies! Exactly one year ago today @rorinstitute.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social launched MetaROR, a platform to publish metaresearch through the publish-review-curate approach.

Over the course of the year, we published 28 articles reviewed by 59 different reviewers.

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Join us for the @icoropen.bsky.social webinar recapping the meeting, ‘From Tools to Adoption: A Path to Modular & Interactive Scientific Publishing’. Come find out how we could potentially pivot from the PDF & print based publishing...

Registration details: incentivizingopen.org/2025/11/from...

📣 NEW PUBLIC WEBINAR: From Tools to Adoption: A Path to Modular and Interactive Scientific Publishing

📅 December 1st | 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT / 4PM GMT / 5PM CET

Learn the outcomes from a recent meeting that focused on laying the foundation for machine-readable research publishing.

Schedule:

Bridging preprints and the Fediverse: Start discussions on Sciety, and continue them everywhere Announcing a powerful new feature to connect scholarly conversations across the open web

Sciety is bridging preprints and open social networks. Our latest integration with #Bonfire enables you to start a discussion on Sciety and federate anywhere; meeting researchers wherever they already are.

blog.sciety.org/bridging-pre...

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #NLnet

not approved or in limbo! The Catch 22 is trying do something different but having to succumb to the rules of journal world. PRC is better than ‘Review then Publish’, however I think genuine reform comes when you unshackle from the conventions and focus on fitting out not fitting in!

The major difference to F1000R is you could take a reviewed preprint elsewhere & choose not to be ‘validated’. By having the journal publish just the ‘validated’ articles means BPC could get indexed fully by WoS. F1000R can’t be indexed in WoS due to publishing content that is approved,

Biophysics Colab | An equitable, inclusive and transparent alternative to traditional science publishing Biophysics Colab provides a 'Publish, Review, Curate' service for preprints describing physicochemical mechanisms underlying physiological processes.

We are delighted to see the growth of the ‘Publish, Review, Curate’ (PRC) initiatives in recent years!🚀
Today, we would like to spotlight Biophysics Colab @biophysicscolab.bsky.social, an international organization working to improve how original research is evaluated in biophysics
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RoRI's MATTHEW project has a new reviewed preprint in @elife.bsky.social, studying the Matthew effect and early-career setbacks in research funding across 14 programmes and 6 funders ⬇️

Funders Roll Out Next Gen Open Policies - SPARC

We just posted an impact story on policies at HHMI, Gates & Astera promoting #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenData. Powerful signals to other funders to accelerate discovery in science. Well done @madubs.bsky.social @openaccessmaven.bsky.social @pracheeac.bsky.social! sparcopen.org/impact-story...

Navigating the ever-growing number of #OpenResearch projects is tough. It's easy for projects to fly under the radar.
Good news! We just launched ICOR's Open Research Beacon (ORB)- the searchable, central hub for the global open research movement! 1/2

eLife Technology Powering real change in the way the research is shared and discovered. Discover how eLife Technology enhances open science with innovative technology, integrated services, and sustainable…

True transformation in publishing requires a robust and flexible infrastructure behind the scenes.

Our technology arm builds, integrates and services #OpenSource technologies and infrastructure, collaborating with the wider #OpenScience community.

"For too long, we have outsourced how we define prestige to the indexers and specifically the impact factor. This has created a system in which the need to get published in prestigious journals creates bad incentives for authors to inflate their findings to tell a good story."

Publish, Review, Curate: Turning scholarly publishing on its head – COAR https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/publish-review-curate-turning-scholarly-publishing-on-its-head/

ASAPbio Response To NIH Request For Information On “Maximizing Research Funds By Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs” (NOT-OD-25-138) – ASAPbio NIH seeks to reduce its publishing expenses, while encouraging high quality research, in order to be good stewards of its limited public funding. Certainly,

We believe preprints and open peer review are central to reducing publishing expenses. 💰📝

We have crafted a response to NIH Request for Information on “Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs,” where you can learn about the details of our recommendations. buff.ly/v9I0i9v

Rapid Science/ICOR Response to NIH RFI | ICOR

Rapid Science, Stratos, and ICOR response to the NIH RFI on publishing costs. "It is only through convergence of ideas and collective action that we will achieve a dynamic paradigm that will accelerate the benefits of our collective investment in science." incentivizingopen.org/2025/09/rapi...

An eLife filled with possibility thanks to great metadata - Crossref eLife recently won a Crossref Metadata Award for the completeness of its metadata, showing itself as the clear leader among our medium-sized members. In this post, the eLife team answers our…

Good metadata makes research more discoverable, connected, and useful.

Our Head of Production Operations, Frederick Atherden, talks with Crossref about the metadata practices that won us the Crossref Metadata Award earlier this year. 👇

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ASAPbio Seeks New Board Members – ASAPbio ASAPbio is seeking several new members for our Board of Directors to support our mission to drive positive change in science communication. Read more about

Passionate about driving positive change in science communication? We need your guidance!

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